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U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported today that hurricane “Ophelia” was downgraded to a tropical storm since it weakened today as it headed to Terranova (Canada) by the Atlantic Ocean. “Ophelia” is approximately 85 kilometers west-southwest of...

More than 700 protesters were arrested on Saturday in New York and Boston due to protests against the U.S. financial system.  Most of the arrests took place in New York, where about 700 people were arrested for two hours because they cut the Brooklyn Bridge in Lower Manhattan,...

Philippine rescuers work from earlier in the morning to help thousands of people trapped since last Thursday, on the roofs of their homes after typhoon “Nesat” and “Nalgae” more than 1.5 meters in depth which have resulted in some 55 deaths. The...

Today two trains in Shanghai, China, crashed with each other due to a signal system failure. At least 262 passengers had minor injuries. The crash occurred at 14h51 (06h51 GMT, 01h51 in Ecuador). The malfunction occurred for a period of 30 minutes before the collision in the Lao...

U.S. Company Odysey Marine Exploration announced the finding of a British freighter called “SS Gairsoppa” which was shooting down by a Nazi submarine in 1941 in the Atlantic Ocean. Currently, this discovery is considered the most precious treasure ever found in the...

Thanks to the information given by a supporter of Muammar Gadhafi, Insurgents discovered today a mass grave with 1,270 bodies near the d’Abou Salim prison in Tripoli. The remains found in the grave may belong to prisoners in Abu Salim prison massacred by the Gadhafi regime...

The Plaza Monumental of Barcelona, Spain, was the scene of the last bullfight after a campaign by activists of the rights of animals. The last bullfight of the season was filled with spectators, tickets were sold out despite the Plaza Monumental has a 20,000 people capacity. The...

An analysis of a sample of rice from Fukushima showed excessive levels of radioactive cesium, Japanese officials said. Ready to collect rice plants with a radioactive level of 500 becquerel per kilogram (above the limit of 200 becquerels established by the Japanese government)...

A NASA satellite of six tonnes fell into Earth on Saturday, the space agency informed. The satellite is the size of a bus and fell over the Pacific Ocean, but that does not mean that all the fragments are at the sea, NASA projected that they could have spread along 800 km. The...

During his flight from Rome, the Pope Benedicto XVI expressed his understanding to the demonstrations about his arrival. The Pope landed this morning in Berlin and was received by the federal president Christian Wulff and the councilor Angela Merkel. The Pope regretted the lack...